Cold Showers, Yogi Tea, Parsley

It is not my projection that you are a human being. But you are. And as a human, you are what you are. Good, bad, right, wrong, happy, unhappy, sick, healthy, there are many facets. And if we look to all facets you have, in spite of all facet, there is a one fact. Are you, you? And that’s not true. You know when you deal with your life as you want to deal with your life, you have the right to deal with your life; the way you want to look, the way you want to eat, the way you want to be, the way you want to suffer, the way you want to be … Whatever you do and whether you are born to belong to God or God belongs to you, something like that, but are you, you? Are you a bunch of solidified, pasteurized ideas, which cannot change. Think about it.

All what you have become is, somebody which you are not. The circumstances, the experience, the sicknesses, the betrayals, the treacheries, the happiness, friendship, brainwash, whatever you are going to call it, I am not going to blame anybody. But, I am sixty-four year old and I have constantly fought. I had a big fight with this thing that “I am me, I am not an opinion, I am not an action, I am not a status, I am not a institution, I am not real, I am not, not real…” Beyond all what is imaginable, in existence, in feelings, in reality, in non-reality, still I hold myself as ‘me.’ Can you even think of it? But what is the idea? I mean to say what do you think you are? There is a one place for you, within you where you can hang in and not be touched! You do not know the joy of it, you do not understand. This is how it starts.

“I have a wife, I have children, I have a boyfriend, I have a sexual friend, I have a married man…”

What, whatever you, you think. Whatever you have is a gift. It’s not yours. Gift is never personal. Enjoy it, have it, do whatever you want to do with it, I am not interfering. I am not quoting ethics to you, but gift is a gift. If you ever take gift as yours, you will drift into a pit from you will never come out. If wife thinks husband is a gift, if husband thinks wife is a gift, they will never fight. Gifts don’t fight. Do they fight? Have you ever looked in the mirror how much you spend money on being beautiful? Have you seen on your behavior how much energy you spend being idiot? Have you, have you ever understood?

One day I was laughing, there was a doctor and she was a doctor. Husband and wife were doctors. And they came as my guests and they started fighting with each other. I didn’t say anything, I enjoyed it. It was a free movie. Soap opera! And she said, “You are stupid, you have come in the presence of a holy man, you shut up.”

He say, “You shut up, I want to ask question.”

And neither he asked question nor he shut up, nor she could shut him up and they had a half-an-hour the most beautiful show, free of cost. And I said, “Who gave them the degree? I mean, who made them PhDs?”

The lady was MD and man was PhD. Very successful people. He works for a very high classified post and she is a medical doctor. And they both had a quarrel with each other.

And today I ask one of my girl, I said, “May I ask….” Because I saw somebody having the bangs over the glasses, I mean to say it was just like the dog which can’t see. So naturally it created a curiosity in me and I said, “Could you tell me why people put these bangs?”

Because that creates fear in your personality. It’s a very psychological defective thing to cover your forehead. This area should never be covered, doesn’t matter what you do, and she said,

“To not show these wrinkles.”

Students: (Laughter).

Ha, don’t show wrinkles, but you will be always be phobic. Look at the exchange of price. Because this triangle is the porous bone, which is meant for light during the day and hairs are bad conductor of heat and electricity and both won’t go. It is amazing. The only first time in the world this psychology was used by Kublai Khan, to slave the Chinese population and he used this psychology that any, every Chinese woman will have like that, you saw the doll bangs? And every man will be shaved up to half head and if not, they can be slaughtered on the spot. It was used as a psychology, it’s a, what you call this, fear therapy. For generations! Now I didn’t know it was a fashion. I didn’t have to do anything with it, because I don’t have bangs. So what do I know?

But, you know, we want to hide things, what is wrong having wrinkles, tell me? What’s so bad about it? I mean you are forty-five year old and you have wrinkles. Think of those who died at twenty-two, without wrinkles.

Students: (Laughter).

Ha? They are dead and gone. Twenty-two. They never had wrinkles. And how much you can avoid wrinkles? And what is so bad dying? What is so bad getting old? That’s bad being you as you. You will never accept ‘you.’ You know, I mostly I don’t speak very frankly, because you will be hurt. Then I am supposed to say things in between, you know, read between the lines.

How more stupid a person can be in intelligence and in consciousness when you don’t accept yourself? I will never dress myself for anybody. Never. Never. I like to look beautiful to myself. I want to look beautiful to me, to my Guru, to my God, to my consciousness. I want to be excellent and elegant for myself. Not for anybody, who the hell is anybody can do me anything? If I don’t have ‘me’, everything else of mine for anybody is as wrong as a lie can be. And when you start, first step on untruth, how much you can make it?

Think sometime, just understand how stupid we are and how much false we live and then we expect everybody to be truthful! Then we expect everybody to love me and love us and so we can live happily thereafter! I mean, you have stories to believe but for God’s sake, understand where is the challenge. Challenge is just to be you. In the all hotchpotch of this planet and all teachings and feelings and, you know, somebody was telling me, “Today we are the pioneers in this and we are pioneers in this, and we are not selling ourself right,” and I said, “Thank God, we are not selling ourself right, wrong, even. We are not.” If we are not selling ourself, but, where they are going to go?

Where this humanity is going to go? They don’t have an answer. We have the answer. Why not do we wait? Have patience. One day everybody has to drink yogi tea, whether you like it or not. There is no way, there is no way ultimately to get rid of the stress and move your liver other than this formula, which is thousand and thousands of years old.

There was once a time, the Sikhs’ home you go, you smell yogi tea pot, from two blocks! Now not. Not at all. Now they drink coffee, I know. It’s not that, now they are rich. Now even yogi tea is a instant yogi tea, they don’t drink. Other people drink. But our people don’t drink. A one thing for centuries a man found out a formula, not I found it, I just thought it will be better for liver. Just for liver. It’s good, it’s tasty, it is nice, no, nobody drinks it. But in those days, when we were young in ’60s, we were totally over-rotten by drugs and dragged by those stuff, we wanted to recuperate, then we understood. We took it as a savior. But now we don’t. Now it shall always save you. Something is not to sell, not to sell, not to push, not to… It is something to have. Carrot juice have to have. You don’t like carrot juice, don’t like carrots, it’s fine. Nobody is going to ask you to like carrots. Zucchini, you have to have.

There are certain things in this nature you have to have. You know I go to restaurants, it’s very funny. You ask any plate, doesn’t matter what, they put little parsley over it. Have you seen that little thing? And the first thing the idiot does, take that parsley, put it on the side. Can you believe this? Can you understand that? The idea is to pick the parsley and eat it, chew it first and then eat the dish. The parsley on the tip of the dish is the pre-demand of the dish. The maker knows it, the eater doesn’t.

I was that day eating with a person and dish came with a parsley on the top and he picked it up and I picked it up. He say, “You want it, sir?”

I say, “Yes.” And I say, “Give this whole dish to me.”

“Why?”

I say, “You can’t eat it. Because this parsley should be eaten first and then you eat the stuff. Because the parsley, this little parsley will go, it will stimulate the kidneys and this dish you are eating is heavy, it will clog the kidneys. Maker is not a idiot, you are an idiot. Parsley is for the health of the kidney. That’s what they put there. This, this is not a decoration piece.”

This little thing… Weren’t we all right without Siri Ved?

Students: (Laughter).

We didn’t have any problem. Now it is okay? Now. I think he doesn’t eat parsley at all. Okay? Now. I didn’t touch it, don’t worry. Now wait a minute now, this, you mean this is bad and that’s good? Is this guy American? Can you check his…? Can you check from which planet he has come? I mean, I can’t believe he is with me for twenty-two years, never one day he doesn’t do this. It’s amazing! Now you don’t hear it at all. First, there was something, no, no, no, no, it is all his, he seeks attention, you know this… It’s a psychological sickness, it’s nothing, nothing so wrong, it’s okay. Yeah, now what?

Siri Ved: (—-)

YB: Now something is wrong with your head, that’s the problem. There is nothing wrong with the system. System can always be put to order. Now what? Okay? No? Yeah? Little bit. See this is what he is going to do. Somebody went to pick up a girlfriend. He started, she started brushing the hair. This is what Siri Ved does. When the class time happens, this is what she does. Some wire is loose, something is not connected, so everybody knows who Siri Ved is.

Students: (laughter).

He is a funny guy. Are you married or divorced? Maybe some woman can change your head, God knows. Okay now? Is it okay? So now Siri Ved is recognized? Now give him a hand.

You have to have carrot juice and you have to eat carrot, if you need your teeth. There is no, no substitute for it. There is no substitute for zucchini. There is no substitute for yogi tea, there is no substitute for yogurt, there is no substitute on this planet for turmeric, the most sexiest, healthiest healing herb on this planet. There is no substitute for golden seal, not all. There is no substitute for 7R, doesn’t matter you jump up, down, hate it or like it. It doesn’t matter. It has the aspirin and it has the cinchona quinine, and which controls the nervous system and which controls the blood thickness and thinness, according to the (?). It’s very precise formula. There is nothing you can do.

There are certain things in life you have to have. You have to be your own doctor for a while. And then when something fails, go to a doctor. You can’t be waiting “All right, I blow up everything and then I go to a doctor.” It won’t happen. It will never work out, you have to have a cold shower whether you like it or you hate it, doesn’t matter. There is no medical human system that you can open up your capillaries other than cold shower. And cold shower means cold shower. Cold shower doesn’t mean huh, huh, hoohahhahoo, huh. This is not a cold shower. I saw somebody taking a cold shower; went in, huh, huh, hoohahhahoo, huh; I say, “What? What happened?”

“I have taken cold shower.”

I say, “This is no damn cold shower. Get in. And now, massage your whole body.”

“It’s very cold!”

“That I know. I follow the rule. Come on. And you massage your body under this damn cold water till your body tells you it is no more cold. That’s the cold shower.”

It means all the capillaries are open and…

Come on, I was waiting, where were you? Today is your birthday, you have to sit here and meditate by my side. Then look great. Right? And straight? Right? And look, and just like, like a yogi, right? Good. And let everybody do anything but you have to keep doing.

That’s a cold shower. It means all the organs in the body the capillaries are open and blood supply has been resumed and the blood has come to the outer skin, to fight out the cold, it means no wrinkle, no that cream, what they call it, A-something? (?).

Student: (——-).

YB: Rejine… something? All that money can be saved. There is no need to be stupid and spend those hours and hours and dollars and dollars. On one Saturday, when you are off, you have to take couple pounds of yogurt and lemon and turmeric and make a powder, like a paste. And put it on your body, let it dry. Let it dry. And ladies, inside out. You mean, you understand what I am saying? And then, you will use water and couple hours to take it off. And you will have a skin of a baby!

So there are certain rules. There are certain ways to life. Yeah, take narayan oil, massage your body. Right? Go under cold shower, you will be on fire. And avoid membrane, otherwise you will go to emergency hospital. No way. But if you can avoid that, and massage yourself with a narayan oil and go under cold shower, your body will be on fire, for couple minutes. But you will not hurt. You will not have millions of problems which you can otherwise get. Because it will penetrate into the whole system and take care of you. Be yourself, something for yourself. Mentally, physically, spiritually, these are the three things you have. If your spirit goes off, you will be depressed. If your mind does not provide the caliber, you, you will be tired. If your physical body doesn’t come through, you will look stupid. Doesn’t matter how dressed up you are something, moment you go to a certain place or certain talk or party, eh-eh-eh, and you will start falling apart. What is the use of that? I mean, what is this God, God you are all the time crying when you cannot handle your own things into one gear?

Without taking care of the body and its nervous system and its circulatory system and its glandular system, you will never have a body. Without opening up the Chakras, without meditating, clear the subconscious becoming conscious of your whole system and being, you will have no caliber of mind. And without invoking in you the experience of ecstasy, you will never command the spirit when you need it, and you will fail. You will become a victim of your own scandal. You don’t need enemies. I don’t believe any enemy you need. I think you are your own enemy.

I am not interested in anything, I am very interested in the aura of a student. When I see the frequency and the arc line are man matching, I take a very personal interest, “Hey don’t do this, hey, don’t go this way; hey, stop, be yourself, hey.” You know. Sometime they listen, sometime they don’t. When they don’t, so be it. It’s not my responsibility. I don’t want to control anybody, because I don’t want to control myself. I want to be a free person, independent person. I want to elevate myself, I want to enjoy myself, what myself is. I want everybody to do it.

How come you start with a man and a husband and a wife and a beloved and a lover and whatever and after two, three, four, five, six years you draw knives at each other! Why? Because you lack communication. Because the development of you is you, him is him, her is her, it is never together. You do not know as human to develop yourself in unisonness. Develop. ‘I want to do what I want to do, I want to think what I want to think.’ And you know we feel that if I ask you to listen to me, and you listen to me, it’s a slavery. Why you go to college then? Just to learn. It’s always better to listen to a learned person and experience and become learned. Only listening is not enough. Experience it. If it’s wrong, go back and say, “You told me this, I did this, look this hell has created.” Face the person.

Learning is a experience process, learning is not a philosophy. It’s not a bookish knowledge. If it’s a, had it a bookish knowledge, there are libraries, you don’t need anything. You don’t need a teacher. And teacher is not to be worshipped. That is where you are most stupid western in the world. Teacher is not to be worshipped. Teacher is to be challenged. Teacher is to ask questions, teacher is to ask him, “Tell me.”

You western, God knows what has gone wrong with you! Oh Swamiji, heyheyhey; what heyheyhey will do for you? Nothing. It’s such a word I can’t believe it. Hey, hey, hey; I went to this World Parliament, everybody started touching my feet, I say, “I am going to fall, I am not perfectly healthy yet. Don’t do this.”

Just, oh it is, it’s a, it’s a, what they say, “It is a tradition to fall at your feet.”

I say, “No, no, no, no, no. It’s a tradition to fall at my feet to learn something, not to make me fall.”

You know, I am not that kind of a teacher. If you have met me, ask me question, I will give you the answer. We’ll be very lucky. I’ll teach you something to be a better person. That is my pleasure. This, this, too much for me, I say, I have my staff, I have my people, take care of me; I have come with ten, fifteen people, I am all well taken care of, there is no problem. I am very well organized person. Okay? You want to learn something? Learn from me and then experience it, and then enjoy it, and if doesn’t work, call me. You need to respect your teacher so that you can become learned. Not a slave. But here, either it’s a question, question, question, or it’s a hum-hum-hu hu, hu, both don’t work. Ask question, experience; ask question, experience; ask question, experience. If it’s wrong, ask further questions. Tell your thesis of life and say, “Well, you told me this, mister, I followed you and look, this has happened. It’s not working.”

That is the way to learn in spirituality. It’s not a matter of trust, it’s a matter of knowledge. That’s why lot of you freak out when I say, “Don’t trust me.” I say it very openly. Because moment you start trusting me, it is, the snake is on my neck, then you are free. That we don’t want. I want you to enquire, work hard and experience yourself. Why you are trusting me? Because you don’t want to do the homework. You want the easy path, “Ha, Yogiji said this, Yogiji…”

Yogiji said this, why he said it? Check it out. Does it work for you, it doesn’t for you, challenge him. Tell me I am a stupid. I’ll prove it to you I am very wise, in two second; I’ll nail you so bad you can’t believe it! Yeah. The relationship between a father and a child is for inquiry. But there is a difference. One day the son will challenge the father. And it’s, it will happen. The son will grow and the sun will set. Father will diminish, deplete and the son will grow. But in a teacher and student relationship, student will shine and the teacher will shine with it. So it’s a very futuristic investigation and investment. A real teacher, doesn’t matter what the temptation is, shall never betray you; never. If he betrays you for the sake of temptation, he is not your teacher. Take it granted. Because his investment is not in now, it is in his tomorrow. And mind you one thing, if you ever see your teacher, have some buffers around you. You are not going to have a good time. Very rarely you will expect a teacher to be nice. Because first thing is, he is going to see the defect and he will get on your neck, first thing. It’s a, as the stone and the chisel meet, comes spark! Moment the teacher will meet you as a teacher, forget he is a man or is a ceremony, that’s different, once the teacher will meet you as a teacher, he say, “Hey, what are you doing?”

“No I am fine.”

“No, no, you are not. What’s going on?”

And that’s how it starts. And then you will try to deny and he will try to coax you to death, finally you will say this is happening and then there comes the shower left and right, up and down! Because idea is either you will learn from time and the bitterness of it, or you can learn from a teacher and save the bitterness of it.

Life is a practical challenge. Life is not what you and I are relating like ‘okay, we go to the class, we pay few bucks and is over with.’ That’s not life. Life is to get rid of the garbage and come out clean. Get it, it is your right. Be free, be frank. Because teacher is today, you are tomorrow. Remember this: Teacher has no tomorrow. If he has no tomorrow, or he has a tomorrow without you, then he is a preacher, he is not a teacher. Then you are falling around guy for wrong purposes. Teacher is a investment, of his total ability in you and there is no relationship between you and teacher. Teacher’s job is to chisel you and your job is to not try to get chiseled and his job is or her job is to chisel you to your death! And your job is to give him run around and make all kind of excuses. And make a “No, no, no, I mean, na, na, na…” then it ultimately comes to such a first degree language that you won’t find a way out!

Remember one thing in your life. Everything around here is a teacher. Blossoming of the flower, fragrance thereof, opening of the bud, changing of the weather, everything which happens in the nature teaches you something. Every person you meet, you can learn something if you are sensitive and conscious. And let us see why we let that beautiful experience pass by? We have to be contemplate ourself into a kind of ecstasy, so that we can be intuitively sensitive to find out the truth. Just by the very touch. Understand? How we can develop that?

Tonight is a hard night. Anybody has to go early or has a babysitter waiting for you or something like that or you are going to stick around? What, up to what time you are available?

Student: (——).

YB: Nine. Okay. We will try to do whatever we can, okay? Yeah.

Student: (———-)

YB: No, no, no, no, no, no. Garbage you, you always find, there is, God cannot create one thing. And you therefore cannot create one thing. Whereas you are wise, there is unwise with you; where you are right, there is unright with you; where car is moving, there is a brakes there. So basically, how much you can control your emotions, commotions, your thoughts, because your thoughts are not under your control. Your intellect, intellect is not under your control. Your consciousness is under your control. So intellects leaves all the thoughts. Millions of thoughts, and those thoughts do become emotion, feeling, desires and your activity. You can’t kill yourself for that!

So you have to understand that you have three personalities: You have a real personality, you have a working personality and one is your fantasy, fantasy. So you have to see are you in too much in fantasy, or you are too much into your working personality, or you are too much in your reality. Can you bring balance if you can’t take help? Otherwise you will be off. You will be scattered, you can’t make it. Because practically life demands reality, practical working reality in balance. So, if you are too much thinking that bring it down, if too much scared and practical, you can’t match up to your working personality and every time your boss is saying you are not making it, then you try to see what you are doing is not right. You understand?

Student: I don’t understand what you said your consciousness should be kept under control. What do you mean by that? I don’t understand that, (?)…

YB: The conscience is an aware balance act, where you, the environment and you object, subject, environment are three, you can balance intuitively. That’s consciousness. It’s a mathematical formula. I, this other person, is another person’s environment and my environment must bring it to balance. It can’t be, I force him, or he forces me. It can’t be done. You have to come to a mutual understanding. And mutual understanding not in two. Mutual understanding in three. And that’s where everybody goofs. You, the object; you are the subject, there is a object, two and the environments.

Somebody called somebody on the telephone, “Honey, you love me?”

She said, “I do.”

“You do?”

She said, “Yes, I do.”

“So?”

“I am missing you.”

She say, “I am missing you too.”

And he said, “You come now. If you won’t be here in two hours, I’ll commit suicide.”

Telephone banged. She left. There was a storm. He knew it. But she just to prove it, started. Got stuck by avalanche, never made it! He never shot himself. That stupid lover should have known the environments are not cohesive. And she should have known the environments also have a vital part; if she has to go and meet him, environments must permit it to meet. So if two people are in mad love or real love or understanding or relationship, it is human to involve the environments into it. And those who do not involve environments are very unconscious people. Does it make it clear?

Student: (——).

YB: That’s okay. Little is enough.

So let us sit down please and balance our hands but our Saturn finger, the second finger must not touch, but should have about, it’s called plug difference. Plug difference is less than half an hour, per half an inch. You have to make your hands like this and very accurate, but must not meet, but it should not be too much away; it should be just they call plug difference. Plug difference is less half an inch. Seven time I am thinking of the hour, because see how much your psyche can affect! Because at that time there was half an hour of your going to meet your baby-sitter, right? Accurate?

Now. Bring your eyes and see how the body will give you what you don’t want to otherwise get. Now, bring your eyes to the tip of the nose. Down there, from there down there you will find a little blue space. It’s called ‘Blue Pearl’ or ‘Pearl of Life’ or ‘Pearl of ….’ there are so many things for this one little thing; it doesn’t mean anything, it’s just a matter of experience.

If your posture will be correct, your front lobe, the forehead, will start becoming heavy like a lead within exact three minutes. That means your posture is correct. Kindly look deep at your tip of the nose and below, keep your fingers and don’t let them meet, they will meet, mind you I am warning you. I’ve done it, so I know it. The fingers will meet. Let them not meet and let your eyes not change, let your spine be straight so that serum can start flowing, spinal fluid, they call it, and things start happening. And kindly concentrate.

I am going to go tonight myself and get rid of this cold of mine, just by a simple formula of having little parsley, blended and juiced, about an ounce with a lemon, drink it.

Look down the tip of the nose. Just think from the nose like water drops you are dripping something and you are seeing it falling into the blue cup down there. It’s very easy, if you cannot do it, try it. If whatever your body does, it shall have effect. Just be elegant, there is nothing more noble than your own physical control on your own body…

SIDE-B

…Don’t misunderstand me that your body is under your perfect control, that’s not true. This is a misunderstanding we all have. Our body and our nervous system is called stamina. Sometime our stamina, physical stamina, mental caliber and our spirit do not catch up to meet our demand. Try to understand. So this is just to develop and invoke in you that energy, you will start opening up your Chakras without your any hassle. And your frontal lobe will start becoming heavy like a lead, you will feel like an headache, but that’s not a real thing. It mean, it is happening. And just feel there is a halo of light, God with you, like Ang Sang Wahe Guru, that’s what actually Ang Sang Wahe Guru means; the sound, it’s a sound, it is not, it is a halo sound.

Today is a very day of festivity. You will feel every Jewish family walking around with Yamka and well dressed up and going through the synagogue. It is a new year. So in every religion you find certain time where you can tune yourself to a point you can go for something, you feel is real. You will find in every religion, but in yoga, it’s every time. You don’t have to wait.

Right now you are tuning yourself and exercise yourself control: Physical, mental and spiritual. Sit like a yogi, be like a yogi, act like a yogi and there will be a pain and there will be a painful pleasure, both. Rise above it. Your nerves will start kicking in and itching and either your lower back will start hurting or your neck will start going berserk. Either of the two things will happen in this exercise because all the five Tattvas, elements are now exchanging energy very heavily. I wish you should see the way I am seeing it.

Put that tape, “Meditate…” meditation, yeah. It is now five minutes to nine and you are being timed now. And please do your best to concentrate and whatever pain is happening, welcome it. Whichever nerve is bothering, welcome it. It is not bothering you, it is straightening itself, it is straightening its meridian, its straightening the flow of energy. It means that meridian is blocked. Either go to acupuncture, get a needle in or just do it yourself.

(The tape, “Meditation… is played).

YB (talks over tape): Fix the eyes. Optical nerve must be controlling the brain….. There are two nerves which are very strong. The taste and the sight. Optical nerves and taste nerves. Faster. Third comes the skin, the touch. Now become yogi for five minutes. I am not expecting any miracle, I am expecting right you creating a miracle, for yourself. There is no philosophy in this. Left energy and right energy, ida and pingala will exchange itself at a very high velocity. If the optical nerve is totally controlled, then the action will be humongous…… Four more minutes. Become like a solid statue of Buddha. Be your best, nothing less….. Meditation is a answer to life, problems, hurdles, weaknesses. It makes you cross all pain, displeasures, weakness. It’s your pathway between man and God. Woman included…… You have one and a quarter minute to go. Concentrate… Inhale deep.

(The tape ends).

YB: Deep, deep, deep, hold it tight and stretch your spine vertebra by your physical actions from lower tail up to the neck. Consciously one, one, one, one… All the way up to the twenty-six of them and then let it go. Inhale again deep, hold tight and please squeeze all the muscular system of your body by the spine, just consciously, slowly, gradually all the weight to the up to the neck, chin in and then let it go. Once again inhale and do the same. One, two, three, four……. nineteen, twenty; one, two, three, four, five, six, let it go. Inhale deep again. One two, three four…nineteen, twenty; one, two, three, four, five six, let it go. Please relax. And shake your hand and body as wildly and fanatically and insanely you can. That’s the beauty of it. If you, if you will not do that, energy will not spread into all facets. Just go, go, go, go, just like craziest thing you can do is, and the wisest thing. Just you act crazy.

Move, move, move your body, just like wild as it should be. Whatever you can imagine, a wild action you can just by sitting do, just do it. Hurry up, hurry up. You have legs also, they need energy too. They have to carry you, the body, neck, face, you know, you go just into, it’s called causing a self-creative convulsion on the body. All right, now sit down nicely. Feel good? You are okay?

Run, run, run, nine o’clock, hurry up. It’s okay, it’s, it’s nice. Aa, this is what you can do with me; whenever you get a chance, you can live. With me, you can only do one thing. With me you can learn to live. I am not interested in your imaginations and in your wealth, and in your poverty and in your richness and whatever you go through. But, I can take your wheel of the wagon, out of the mud. That I can do. And that is what is called Kundalini Yoga. It immediately takes a person from mental stalemate to mental activity. Increases the caliber. There is no beauty of this yoga, I would never have tried it, if I don’t understand three things about it. One is, saves time; number two, it is spontaneous; number three, it deeply affects on all calibers of the human, all facets. That’s all.

And the wonderful thing in this is, we don’t initiate anybody, we don’t lay philosophy, nothing doing. Get a person into the mold, cook him, stretch him, wash him, clean him, kick him out, let him face his day. That’s how it works. It’s not a long okay, you come and do for me and I’ll do for you. There is no such thing, there is no little ragging, most of the people don’t like it. Then they want long emotional rap and satisfaction, that kind of relationship. In this, it can’t be. We don’t initiate anybody. Because if you are so stupid you can’t initiate yourself, why the hell we go to the trouble?

So it is not, it’s a, it’s a respect of your understanding, of your learning, of your grace; it’s not a respect by bound, by tying knots and tying those trips and going through all those ceremonies, no ceremony. There is only one ceremony that you get better ten times than your teacher. That’s your ceremony. Prove it. That is the only ceremony which is acceptable in this whole science. Become, become, healthier, happier and holier. And as everybody has nine holes is a holy, simply you should know what goes in and goes out. And that is called conscious control.

And now, a very simple exercise. Move your toes and move your fingers fast together for few minutes, so whatever you have achieved is balanced. That’s all. It will be a minute and a half, when we finish this, we will be free. Come on, come on, quick, fast. And see the toes are moving both sides. Because toes and fingers are the extremities. So, the movement little bit in them, it does complete the thing. All right. Now, fold your hands and sing.

Tao Te Ching – Verse 61 – When a country obtains great power, it becomes like the sea: all streams run downward into it.

Tao Te Ching – Verse 61

When a country obtains great power,
it becomes like the sea:
all streams run downward into it.
The more powerful it grows,
the greater the need for humility.
Humility means trusting the Tao,
thus never needing to be defensive.
Continue reading “Tao Te Ching – Verse 61 – When a country obtains great power, it becomes like the sea: all streams run downward into it.”

Tao Te Ching – Verse 44 – Fame or integrity: which is more important?

Tao Te Ching – Verse 44

Fame or integrity: which is more important?
Money or happiness: which is more valuable?
Success or failure: which is more destructive?

If you look to others for fulfillment,
you will never truly be fulfilled.
If your happiness depends on money,
you will never be happy with yourself. Continue reading “Tao Te Ching – Verse 44 – Fame or integrity: which is more important?”

Tao Te Ching – Verse 61 – When a country obtains great power, it becomes like the sea: all streams run downward into it.

Tao Te Ching – Verse 61

When a country obtains great power,
it becomes like the sea:
all streams run downward into it.
The more powerful it grows,
the greater the need for humility.
Humility means trusting the Tao,
thus never needing to be defensive.
Continue reading “Tao Te Ching – Verse 61 – When a country obtains great power, it becomes like the sea: all streams run downward into it.”

Tao Te Ching – Verse 44 – Fame or integrity: which is more important?

Tao Te Ching – Verse 44

Fame or integrity: which is more important?
Money or happiness: which is more valuable?
Success or failure: which is more destructive?

If you look to others for fulfillment,
you will never truly be fulfilled.
If your happiness depends on money,
you will never be happy with yourself. Continue reading “Tao Te Ching – Verse 44 – Fame or integrity: which is more important?”

Today: “Weigh your words carefully before expressing them.  Be aware of the impact that you have on others.” – From the I Ching

Weigh your words carefully before expressing them.  Be aware of the impact that you have on others.

Tao Te Ching – Verse 26 – The heavy is the root of the light. The unmoved is the source of all movement. 

Today: “Why are we limited? Because of lack of wisdom through knowledge. If you know wisdom and then you go through an experience, you have knowledge.” Yogi Bhajan 

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37 – Thirty-Seven.  Chia Jên / Family Duties

Warming Air Currents rise and spread from the Hearthfire:

The Superior Person weighs his words carefully and is consistent in his behavior.

Be as faithful as a good wife.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

One in this situation must be keenly aware of his influence on others.
Maintain a healthy respect for the ripple effect of your words and deeds.
To some you serve as a role model.
You can either help shape their world or tilt them into chaos.
Show temperance and consideration to all.

  yang  
  yang above: Sun / The Gentle, Wind
  yin
 
  yang  
  yin below: Li / The Clinging, Fire
  yang

 

This hexagram represents the laws obtaining within the family. The strong line at the top represents the father, the lowest the son. The strong line in the fifth place represents the husband, the yielding second line the wife. On the other hand, the two strong lines in the fifth and the third place represent two brothers, and the two weak lines correlated with them in the fourth and the second place stand for their respective wives. Thus all the connections and relationships within the family find their appropriate expression. Each individual line has the character according with its place. The fact that a strong line occupies the sixth place – where a weak line might be expected – indicates very clearly the strong leadership that must come from the head of the family. The line is to be considered here not in its quality as the sixth but in its quality as the top line. THE FAMILY shows the laws operative within the household that, transferred to outside life, keep the state and the world in order. The influence that goes out from within the family is represented by the symbol of the wind created by fire.

THE JUDGEMENT

THE FAMILY. The perseverance of the woman furthers.

The foundation of the family is the relationship between husband and wife. The tie that hold the family together lies in the loyalty and perseverance of the wife. Her place is within (second line), while that of the husband is without (fifth line). It is in accord with the great laws of nature that husband and wife take their proper places. Within the family a strong authority is needed; this is represented by the parents. If the father is really a father and the son a son, if the elder brother fulfils his position, and the younger fulfils his, if the husband is really a husband and the wife a wife, then the family is in order. When the family is in order, all the social relationships of mankind will be in order.

Three of the five social relationships are to be found within the family – that between father and son, which is the relation of love, that between the husband and wife, which is the relation of chaste conduct, and that between elder and younger brother, which is the relation of correctness. The loving reverence of the son is then carried over to the prince in the form of faithfulness to duty; the affection and correctness of behavior existing between the two brothers are extended to a friend in the form of loyalty, and to a person of superior rank in the form of deference. The family is society in embryo; it is the native soil on which performance of moral duty is made easy through natural affection, so that within a small circle a basis of moral practice is created, and this is later widened to include human relationships in general.
 

THE IMAGE

Wind comes forth from fire:
The image of THE FAMILY.
Thus the superior man has substance in his words
And duration in his way of life.

Heat creates energy: this is signified by the wind stirred up by the fire and issuing forth from it. This represents influence working from within outward. The same thing is needed in the regulation of the family. Here too the influence on others must proceed from one’s own person. In order to be capable of producing such an influence, one’s words must have power, and this they can have only if they are based on something real, just as flame depends on its fuel. Words have influence only when they are pertinent and clearly related to definite circumstances. General discourses and admonitions have no effect whatsoever. Furthermore, the words must be supported by one’s entire conduct, just as the wind is made effective by its duration. Only firm and consistent conduct will make such an impression on others that they can adapt and conform to it. If words and conduct are not in accord and not consistent, they will have no effect.


 

Today: “A terrible reckoning is due.” – From the I Ching

A terrible reckoning is due.

Yesterday’s reading describes our personal participation in the administration of justice, through kindness and nourishment.  

Today brings a broader declaration of the inevitability of harsh retribution against the perpetrators of egregious injustices. 

A wrong will be righted — and even if it has been you who has been wronged, you will tremble at the terrible power of Justice untempered by Mercy.
Pray for your oppressor, that his punishment will fit his crime.
Since the hexagram is made up of the trigrams for thunder and for lightning, it indicates how obstacles are forcibly removed in nature.
Recourse to law and penalties overcomes the disturbances of harmonious social life caused by criminals and slanderers.
When an obstacle to union arises, energetic biting through brings success. This is true in all situations. Whenever unity cannot be established, the obstruction is due to a talebearer and traitor who is interfering and blocking the way. To prevent permanent injury, vigorous measures must be taken at once. Deliberate obstruction of this sort does not vanish of its own accord. Judgement and punishment are required to deter or obviate it.
Penalties are the individual applications of the law. The laws specify the penalties. Clarity prevails when mild and severe penalties are clearly differentiated, according to the nature of the crimes. This is symbolized by the clarity of lightning. The law is strengthened by a just application of penalties. This is symbolized by the terror of thunder. This clarity and severity have the effect of instilling respect; it is not that the penalties are ends in themselves. The obstructions in the social life of man increase when there is lack of clarity in the penal codes and slackness in executing them. The only way to strengthen the law is to make it clear and to make penalties certain and swift.

Tao Te Ching – Verse 25 – There was something formless and perfect before the universe was born. 

Today: “Your deeds should be honorable as you want to be received by God. And your deeds cannot be honorable unless you have honorable intentions.” Yogi Bhajan 

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21 – Twenty-One.  Shih Ho / Biting Through

The merciless, searing judgement of Lightning fulfills the warning prophecies of distant Thunder.
Sage rulers preserved Justice by clearly defining the laws, and by delivering the penalties decreed.

Though unpleasant, it is best to let justice have its due.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

A terrible reckoning is due.
A wrong will be righted — and even if it has been you who has been wronged, you will tremble at the terrible power of Justice untempered by Mercy.
Pray for your oppressor, that his punishment will fit his crime.

  yang  
  yin above: Li / The Clinging, Fire
  yang
 
  yin  
  yin below: Chên / The Arousing, Thunder
  yang

 

This hexagram represents an open mouth (cf. hexagram 27) with an obstruction (in the fourth place) between the teeth. As a result the lips cannot meet. To bring them together one must bite energetically through the obstacle. Since the hexagram is made up of the trigrams for thunder and for lightning, it indicates how obstacles are forcibly removed in nature. Energetic biting through overcomes the obstacle that prevents joining of the lips; the storm with its thunder and lightning overcomes the disturbing tension in nature. Recourse to law and penalties overcomes the disturbances of harmonious social life caused by criminals and slanderers.

THE JUDGEMENT

BITING THROUGH has success.
It is favorable to let justice be administered.

When an obstacle to union arises, energetic biting through brings success. This is true in all situations. Whenever unity cannot be established, the obstruction is due to a talebearer and traitor who is interfering and blocking the way. To prevent permanent injury, vigorous measures must be taken at once. Deliberate obstruction of this sort does not vanish of its own accord. Judgement and punishment are required to deter or obviate it.
However, it is important to proceed in the right way. The hexagram combines Li, clarity, and Chên, excitement. Li is yielding, Chên is hard. Unqualified hardness and excitement would be too violent in meting out punishment; unqualified clarity and gentleness would be too weak. The two together create the just measure. It is of moment that the man who makes the decisions (represented by the fifth line) is gentle by nature, while he commands respect by his conduct in his position.

 

Lightning and fire

THE IMAGE

Thunder and lightning:
The image of BITING THROUGH.
Thus the kings of former times made firm the laws
Through clearly defined penalties.

Penalties are the individual applications of the law. The laws specify the penalties. Clarity prevails when mild and severe penalties are clearly differentiated, according to the nature of the crimes. This is symbolized by the clarity of lightning. The law is strengthened by a just application of penalties. This is symbolized by the terror of thunder. This clarity and severity have the effect of instilling respect; it is not that the penalties are ends in themselves. The obstructions in the social life of man increase when there is lack of clarity in the penal codes and slackness in executing them. The only way to strengthen the law is to make it clear and to make penalties certain and swift.

 

Today: “Justice is due. ” – From the I Ching

Justice is due.  

The merciless, searing judgement of Lightning fulfills the warning prophecies of distant Thunder.
Sage rulers preserved Justice by clearly defining the laws, and by delivering the penalties decreed.
A terrible reckoning is due.
A wrong will be righted — and even if it has been you who has been wronged, you will tremble at the terrible power of Justice untempered by Mercy.

There are great obstacles to be overcome, powerful opponents are to be punished. Though this is arduous, the effort succeeds. But it is necessary to be hard as metal and straight as an arrow to surmount the difficulties. If one knows these difficulties and remains persevering, he attains good fortune. The difficult task is achieved in the end.
Nurture others in need, as if you were feeding yourself.
Take care not to provide sustenance for those who feed off others.
Stay as high as possible on the food chain.

Tao Te Ching – Verse 24 – He who stands on tiptoe doesn’t stand firm 

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21 – Twenty-One.  Shih Ho / Biting Through

The merciless, searing judgement of Lightning fulfills the warning prophecies of distant Thunder.
Sage rulers preserved Justice by clearly defining the laws, and by delivering the penalties decreed.

Though unpleasant, it is best to let justice have its due.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

A terrible reckoning is due.
A wrong will be righted — and even if it has been you who has been wronged, you will tremble at the terrible power of Justice untempered by Mercy.
Pray for your oppressor, that his punishment will fit his crime.

Nine in the fourth place means:

Bites on dried gristly meat.
Receives metal arrows.
It furthers one to be mindful of difficulties
And to be persevering.
Good fortune.Dried meat

Dried meat

There are great obstacles to be overcome, powerful opponents are to be punished. Though this is arduous, the effort succeeds. But it is necessary to be hard as metal and straight as an arrow to surmount the difficulties. If one knows these difficulties and remains persevering, he attains good fortune. The difficult task is achieved in the end.

Mongols

27 – Twenty-Seven.  I / Providing Nourishment

Beneath the immobile Mountain the arousing Thunder stirs:
The Superior Person preserves his freedom under oppressive conditions by watching what comes out of his mouth, as well as what goes in.

Endure and good fortune will come.
Nurture others in need, as if you were feeding yourself.
Take care not to provide sustenance for those who feed off others.
Stay as high as possible on the food chain.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

You are a conduit in this instance, able to provide the sustenance needed by others.
Position yourself to nourish the truly needy and worthy.
Avoid situations where you might be coerced into supporting the parasites and vermin who deprive your true charges.
Your own nourishment is an issue here, too.
Remember Lao Tzu’s three Great Treasures:
Only the person possessed of Compassion, Modesty and Frugality can remain fit enough to stay free of desperation and keep control of the situation.

 

Today: “Avoid any reactions to the situation.  Do not be misled into premature action.  Carefully consider your alternatives and wait for an opening to present itself.” – From the I Ching

Danger closing in
The urge to act pushing hard
Find the opening

Avoid any reactions to the situation.  Do not be misled into premature action.  Carefully consider your alternatives and wait for an opening to present itself. 

Tao Te Ching – Verse 23 – Express yourself completely, then keep quiet 

Today: “Actually, the person who has realized God is very humble.” Yogi Bhajan 

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29 – Twenty-Nine.  K’an / Dangerously Deep

Water follows Water, spilling over any cliff, flowing past all obstacles, no matter the depth or distance, to the Sea.
The Superior Person learns flexibility from the mistakes he has made, and grows strong from the obstacles he has overcome, pressing on to show others the Way.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

You are facing a crucial trial along your Journey.
The danger of this challenge is very real.
It is a test of your mettle.
If you can maintain your integrity and stay true to your convictions, you will overcome.
That’s not as easy as it seems when you are faced with the sacrifice of other things you’ve come to depend upon or hold dear.

Six in the third place means:

Deep, dangerous pitfalls on every side.
Stand fast.

Forward and backward, abyss on abyss.
In danger like this, pause at first and wait,
Otherwise you will fall into a pit in the abyss.
Do not act this way.

Abyss

Here every step, forward or backward, leads into danger. Escape is out of the question. Therefore we must not be misled into action, as a result of which we should only bog down deeper in the danger; disagreeable as it may be to remain in such a situation, we must wait till a way out shows itself.

43 – Forty-Three.  Kuai / Breakthrough

A Deluge from Heaven:
The Superior Person rains fortune upon those in need, then moves on with no thought of the good he does.

The issue must be raised before an impartial authority.
Be sincere and earnest, despite the danger.
Do not try to force the outcome, but seek support where needed.
Set a clear goal.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

Your iron will must come to the forefront now.
It will take great personal determination to resolve the situation in question.
Your adversary would love to force you into an angry display.
That would legitimize his opposition to you.
Such a berserker rage would drag you down to his level.
You must resolutely take a public stand against what he represents, but refuse to engage him.
Without compromise, you show others the way to higher ground.

 

Today: “Hold closely what matters most to you despite isolation.  Those who are inspired will join you.” – From the I Ching

Hold closely what matters most to you despite isolation.  Those who are inspired will join you.

Tao Te Ching – Verse 22 – If you want to become whole, let yourself be partial. If you want to become straight, let yourself be crooked. 

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38 – Thirty-Eight.  K’uei / Estrangement

Fire distances itself from its nemesis, the Lake:
No matter how large or diverse the group, the Superior Person remains uniquely himself.

Small accomplishments are possible.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

You are working at cross-purposes with another.
The distance between you is very wide.
The gap can be closed, however, with no compromise of your integrity.
You are not adversaries in this case — just two persons addressing individual needs.
Ask yourself: are these needs mutually exclusive?
Is there common ground here?
Must there be one winner and one loser?
Could you become partners in seeking a solution that would allow for two winners?

Nine in the fourth place means:

Resolving to stand alone in his beliefs if he must, he is immediately joined by a kindred spirit.

Isolated through opposition,
One meets a like-minded man
With whom one can associate in good faith.
Despite the danger, no blame.

Monks

If a man finds himself in a company of people from whom he is separated by an inner opposition, he becomes isolated. But if in such a situation a man meets someone who fundamentally by the very law of his being, is kin to him, and whom he can trust completely, he overcomes all the dangers of isolation. His will achieves its aim, and he becomes free of faults.
24 – Twenty-Four.  Fu / Return

Thunder regenerates deep within Earth’s womb:
Sage rulers recognized that the end of Earth’s seasonal cycle was also the starting point of a new year and a time for dormancy.
They closed the passes at the Solstice to enforce a rest from commerce and activity.
The ruler himself did not travel.

You have passed this way before but you are not regressing.
This is progress, for the cycle now repeats itself, and this time you are aware that it truly is a cycle.
The return of old familiars is welcome.
You can be as sure of this cycle as you are that seven days bring the start of a new week.
Use this dormancy phase to plan which direction you will grow.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

You are about to experience a rebirth — about to be given another chance, a new lease on life.
You have persevered, gone the distance through an entire cycle — through the Spring of hope or new passion, through a Summer of growth and building, only to be sacrificed like the archetypal Harvest King at the Autumn reaping.
You lie dormant like seed beneath Winter snows now, healing and absorbing new energies in preparation for the new young Spring coming shortly to your life.

 

Today: “Now is the time to let go and allow the maelstrom of events to play out.  Any overt actions will face reprisal.  Employ small measures to reduce suffering of the less fortunate until everyone can breathe again.  This too shall pass.” – From the I Ching

Letting go for now /
assist others in conflict /
as the storm passes

Now is the time to let go and allow the maelstrom of events to play out.  Any overt actions will face reprisal.  Employ small measures to reduce suffering of the less fortunate until everyone can breathe again.  This too shall pass.

Tao Te Ching – Verse 21 – The Master keeps her mind always at one with the Tao; that is what gives her her radiance. 

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52 – Fifty-Two.  Kên / The Mountain

Above this Mountain’s summit another more majestic rises:
The Superior Person is mindful to keep his thoughts in the here and now.

Stilling the sensations of the Ego, he roams his courtyard without moving a muscle, unencumbered by the fears and desires of his fellows.
This is no mistake.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

There is a higher vantage point available to you, but it is obscured by the visible peak of personal ambition.
To climb to this higher plane, you must shake off the desires and fears of the conscious, visible world around you.
To make this journey you must quiet the Ego, empty your mind of past and future, and dwell totally in the moment at hand.
Thorough mindfulness of what is before you is the only tranquility.
Be. Here. Now.

Nine in the third place means:

He seeks stillness through rigidity instead of relaxation.
He will paralyze his legs and overtax his heart.

Keeping his hips still.
Making his sacrum stiff.
Dangerous. The heart suffocates.

Buddha's meditation

Buddha’s meditation

This refers to enforced quiet. The restless heart is to be subdued by forcible means. But fire when it is smothered changes into acrid smoke that suffocates as it spreads.
Therefore, in exercises in meditation and concentration, one ought not to try to force results. Rather, calmness must develop naturally out of a state of inner composure. If one tries to induce calmness by means of artificial rigidity, meditation will lead to very unwholesome results.
23 – Twenty-Three.  Po / Splitting Apart

The weight of the Mountain presses down upon a weak foundation of Earth:
The Superior Person will use this time of oppression to attend to the needs of those less fortunate.

Any action would be ill-timed.
Stand fast.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

This is a situation easily mistaken for Stagnation (Hexagram 12) or Revolution (Hexagram 49).
It just depends on which si de you’re on.
During a time of Stagnation, human worms invade to feed on the decay.
During a time of Revolution, oppression is being overthrown.
But in this situation, oppressors are violently seizing power.
Pay special heed when you receive this hexagram, because the oracle is often warning you of a situation of which you are totally unaware.
You are about to be blindsided.

 

Today: “Allow nature to guide your intentions without struggle.  Discern the natural flow of events, nudging them to your purposes from the perpendicular, not opposing them. ” – From the I Ching

Join the flow in joy /
not resisting as it is /
knocking it sideways

Allow nature to guide your intentions without struggle.  Discern the natural flow of events, nudging them to your purposes from the perpendicular, not opposing them.  

Tao Te Ching – Verse 20 – Stop thinking, and end your problems. 

Today: “Why do we tell you to remember God? What is there that you should remember or not remember? What are you going to gain?” Yogi Bhajan 

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60 – Sixty.  Chieh / Limitations

Waters difficult to keep within the Lake’s banks:
The Superior Person examines the nature of virtue and makes himself a standard that can be followed.

Self-discipline brings success; but restraints too binding bring self-defeat.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

Cultivating the proper disciplines and the proper degree of discipline are the concerns of this hexagram.
By limiting options, you may give more attention to priorities.
One who is all over the map is no less lost than one without a map.
Avoid asceticism, however.
Deprivation is not wise discipline.
The key here is regulation, not restriction.

Six in the fourth place means:

He is most content in frugality and simplicity: the highest success.

Contented limitation. Success.

Waterfall

‘Waterfall’ – Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972)

Every limitation has its value, but a limitation that requires persistent effort entails a cost of too much energy. When, however, the limitation is a natural one (as for example, the limitation by which water flows only downhill), it necessarily leads to success, for then it means a saving of energy. The energy that otherwise would be consumed in a vain struggle with the object, is applied wholly to the benefit of the matter in hand, and success is assured.

M.C. Escher Lego Waterfall

58 – Fifty-Eight.  Tui / Empowering

The joyous Lake spans on and on to the horizon:
The Superior Person renews and expands his Spirit through heart-to-heart exchanges with others.

Success if you stay on course.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

This is the sign of true companionship.
The principals in this situation exchange energy, ideas and feelings, constantly invigorating and encouraging each other to new heights of Spiritual achievement and Self-discovery.
This exchange is not for the glory of the Team, but for furthering the process of each individual’s ‘Te’, or pure potentiality.

 

Today: “In humility, give aid where it is needed.   There is no need to flaunt your capabilities.  You will be instrumental in forming a formidable movement.” – From the I Ching

In humility, give aid where it is needed.   There is no need to flaunt your capabilities.  You will be instrumental in forming a formidable movement.

Tao Te Ching – Verse 19 – Throw away holiness and wisdom, and people will be a hundred times happier. 

Today: “The mind should dance with the body, and the whole universe is your stage.” Yogi Bhajan 

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62 – Sixty-Two.   Hsiao Kuo / Lying Low

Thunder high on the Mountain, active passivity:
The Superior Person is unsurpassed in his ability to remain small.
In a time for humility, he is supremely modest.
In a time of mourning, he uplifts with somber reverence.
In a time of want, he is resourcefully frugal.

When a bird flies too high, its song is lost.
Rather than push upward now, it is best to remain below.
This will bring surprising good fortune, if you keep to your course.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

There is no profit to striving here.
To be content with oneself is the greatest success imaginable.
The enlightened person has nothing to prove to himself or others, and thus may always operate from a position of sincerity, with no pretense or posturing.
His humility is guileless simplicity.
His mourning is selfless compassion.
His frugality is an unshakeable faith that he is but a conduit, letting what is needed flow through him to others, with no loss to himself.

Six in the fifth place means:

Dense clouds,
No rain from our western territory.
The prince shoots and hits him who is in the cave.

Drifting Clouds

‘Drifting Clouds’ – Caspar David Friedrich – 1820

As a high place is pictured here, the image of a flying bird has become that of flying clouds. But dense as the clouds are, they race across the sky and give no rain. Similarly, in exceptional times there may be a born ruler who is qualified to set the world in order, but who cannot achieve anything or confer blessing on the people because he stands alone and has no helpers. In such times a man must seek out helpers with whose aid he can carry out the task. But these helpers must be modestly sought out in the retirement to which they have withdrawn. It is not their fame nor their great names but their genuine achievements that are important. Through such modesty the right man is found, and the exceptional task is carried out in spite of all difficulties.

31 – Thirty-One   Hsien / Attraction

The joyous Lake is cradled by the tranquil Mountain:
The Superior Person takes great satisfaction in encouraging others along their journey.
He draws them to him with his welcoming nature and genuine interest.

Supreme success.
This course leads to marriage.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

There is no greater natural law in the Cosmos than Attraction.
From the magnetic pull of an atom’s nucleus to the centripetal force that spirals a galaxy, the face of the universe is shaped by Attraction.
On a human scale, it is Attraction that fuels procreation and furthers our species.
Yet it is also Attraction that spawns greed and covetousness, threatening our extinction.
Attraction is the underlying force of the situation in question.
You are refined or debased by the objects of your desire.
What gravitational pull are you now under?
Around what sphere of influence do you circle?
Can you use your own ability to attract?

 

Today: “Friends and allies are won by sincerity, not coercion. Even so don’t overdo it.  Keep your dignity in humility.” – From the I Ching

Friends and allies are won by sincerity, not coercion. Even so don’t overdo it.  Keep your dignity in humility.

Tao Te Ching – Verse 18 – When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and piety appear. 

Today: “Life is a game, but we do not want to play unattached. We want to play for the sake of winning and losing, and that is where unhappiness comes in.” Yogi Bhajan 

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Today: “Prioritize with respect to importance.  Make good choices.  Forgo the lure of shiny objects.  Renounce compulsive behavior. ” – From the I Ching

 

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14 – Fourteen.  Ta Yu / Great Treasures

The Fire of clarity illuminates the Heavens to those below:
The Superior Person possesses great inner treasures — compassion, economy, and modesty.
These treasures allow the benevolent will of Heaven to flow through him outward to curb evil and to further good.

Supreme success.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

You have become an instrument of Heaven’s will, offering a balance in the world around you.
It is not swashbuckling prowess or uncanny talent that qualifies you for this office, but your simplest gifts — your modesty, your compassion, your economy.
Because you can see clearly who most needs a miracle, Heaven’s bounty is being put at your disposal.

Six in the fifth place means:

His sincerity attracts and inspires others whom gold could not

He whose truth is accessible, yet dignified,
Has good fortune.

Ven. Ananda

Ven. Ananda in the first Buddhist Council

The situation is very favorable. People are being won not by coercion but by unaffected sincerity, so that they are attached to us in sincerity and truth. However, benevolence alone is not sufficient at the time of POSSESSION IN GREAT MEASURE. For insolence might begin to spread. Insolence must be kept in bounds by dignity; then good fortune is assured.
9 – Nine.  Hsiao Ch’u / Gentle Restraint

Winds of change high in the Heavens:
Air currents carry the weather.
Dense clouds blow in from the West, but still no rain.
The Superior Person fine tunes the image he presents to the world.

Small successes.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

No matter what you do, the fruit of your labors never seems to ripen.
Your reward remains just out of reach.
Men have gone mad from such anticipation.
Don’t lose your balance lunging for the brass ring.
While the Fates continue to restrain you, go them one better and display a self-generated restraint and grace.
Look for the humor in the situation.

 

Today: “You can accomplish anything you choose.  The time is with you.  Just be careful not to act prematurely before the time is ripe for your endeavor.” – From the I Ching

Anything you choose /
Whenever the time is right /
act decisively

You can accomplish anything you choose.  The time is with you.  Just be careful not to act prematurely before the time is ripe for your endeavor.  Know when it is time to act.

Tao Te Ching – Verse 17 – When the Master governs, the people are hardly aware that he exists. Next best is a leader who is loved. Next, one who is feared. The worst is one who is despised. 

Today: “Who am I and what do I know? These are questions that man has to ask himself.” Yogi Bhajan 

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1 – One   Ch’ien / Creative Activity

Heaven above and Heaven below:
Heaven in constant motion.
With the strength of the dragon, the Superior Person steels himself for ceaseless activity.

Productive Activity.
Potent Influence.
Sublime Success if you keep to your course.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

The time for action has come.
You now have the focus and the stamina necessary for accomplishing great tasks.
The path before you is being cleared and reward lies ahead.

Nine at the beginning [yang at bottom] means:

Hidden dragon. Do not act.

 

 

 
San Francisco Chinatown

 

 

‘San Francisco Chinatown’ – Fred Eng

IN CHINA the dragon has a meaning altogether different from that given it in the Western world. The dragon is a symbol of the electrically charged, dynamic, arousing force that manifests itself in the thunderstorm. In winter this energy withdraws into the earth; in the early summer it becomes active again, appearing in the sky as thunder and lightning. As a result the creative forces on earth begin to stir again. Here this creative force is still hidden beneath the earth and therefore has no effect. In terms of human affairs, this symbolises a great man who is still unrecognized. Nonetheless he remains true to himself. He does not allow himself to be influenced by outward success or failure, but confident in his strength, he bides his time. Hence it is wise for the man who consults the oracle and draws this line to wait in the calm strength of patience. The time will fulfil itself. One need not fear lest strong will should not prevail; the main thing is not to expend one’s powers prematurely in an attempt to obtain by force something for which the time is not yet ripe.
44 – Forty-Four   Kou / Compulsion

A playful Zephyr dances and delights beneath indulgent Heaven:
A Prince who shouts orders but will not walk among his people may as well try to command the four winds.

A strong, addictive temptation, much more dangerous than it seems.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

You are ignoring a clear and present danger to your well-being.
If this threat emanated from a heavy-handed oppressor, you would see it coming.
But this danger comes to you in the form of a seduction, an amusement, a diversion, an indulgence that is eating away at the fiber of your secure little world.
You are too cocksure.
You underestimate the tribute this dalliance will demand.

 

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Tao Te Ching – Verse 16 – Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return. 

Today: “All sickness, all shallowness, all unhappiness, all pain, all miseries are the outcome of one source; keeping negativity within yourself.” Yogi Bhajan 

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Previous previous reading: “What is prayer? You create a vibratory effect which goes into the Infinite Creative around the psyche of you.”

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31 – Thirty-One.  Hsien / Attraction

The joyous Lake is cradled by the tranquil Mountain:
The Superior Person takes great satisfaction in encouraging others along their journey.
He draws them to him with his welcoming nature and genuine interest.

Supreme success.
This course leads to marriage.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

There is no greater natural law in the Cosmos than Attraction.
From the magnetic pull of an atom’s nucleus to the centripetal force that spirals a galaxy, the face of the universe is shaped by Attraction.
On a human scale, it is Attraction that fuels procreation and furthers our species.
Yet it is also Attraction that spawns greed and covetousness, threatening our extinction.
Attraction is the underlying force of the situation in question.
You are refined or debased by the objects of your desire.
What gravitational pull are you now under?
Around what sphere of influence do you circle?
Can you use your own ability to attract?

Six at the top means:

A wagging tongue and working jaws.
All sound and fury signifying nothing.

The influence shows itself in the jaws, cheeks, and tongue.

Empty speech

The most superficial way of trying to influence others is through talk that has nothing real behind it. The influence produced by such mere tongue wagging must necessarily remain insignificant. Hence no indication is added regarding good or bad fortune.
56 – Fifty-Six.  Lu / The Wanderer

Fire on the Mountain, catastrophic to man, a passing annoyance to the Mountain:
The Superior Person waits for wisdom and clarity before exacting Justice, then lets no protest sway him.

Find satisfaction in small gains.
To move constantly forward is good fortune to a Wanderer.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

You are a stranger to this situation.
It is your attraction to the exotic that has led you here, but you will move on to a new vista when this one has lost its mystique.
Because much of this environment is foreign to you, you must exercise only the best judgement.
You don’t know the custom here, and it’s too easy to cross a line you don’t know is there.
Because you are the foreigner in this setting, you have no history to acquit you.
Watch, listen, study, contemplate, then step lightly but decisively on.